It Takes Two (1995 film)
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8% Featured song It Takes Two Duration Country United States | 5.7/10 IMDb 45% Genre Comedy, Family, Romance Initial DVD release June 11, 2002 Writer Deborah Dean Davis Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date November 17, 1995 (1995-11-17) Cast (Diane Barrows), (Roger Callaway), (Alyssa Callaway / Amanda Lemmon), (Amanda Lemmon / Alyssa Callaway), (Clarice Kensington), (Vincenzo) Similar movies Mother 007 , Orphans' Benefit , The Little Nuns , The Whipping Boy , Git! , Orphan Train Tagline Two identical strangers. Two different worlds. One perfect match. |
It takes two trailer 1995
It Takes Two is a 1995 film starring Kirstie Alley, Steve Guttenberg and Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. The film title was taken from the song, "It Takes Two", by Marvin Gaye and Kim Weston, which was featured in the closing credits.
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- It takes two trailer 1995
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- Plot
- Characters
- Awards and nominations
- Reception
- References

It takes two 1995 official trailer mary kate olsen ashley olsen movie hd
Plot

Two unrelated young girls who happen to look identical suddenly meet. Amanda Lemmon (Mary-Kate Olsen) is an orphan, and she is about to be adopted by the Butkises, a family whom she doesn't like. She actually wants her child-loving social worker, Diane Barrows (Kirstie Alley), to adopt her instead. Diane would like to do so, but authorities will not let her because of her low salary. Alyssa Callaway (Ashley Olsen) is coming home from her school's piano recital competition, only to find that her wealthy father, Roger (Steve Guttenberg), is about to marry Clarice Kensington (Jane Sibbett) a socialite who threatens to send her soon-to-be stepdaughter to boarding school in Tibet.

The girls switch places and find out that Roger and Diane would fit together perfectly. So they arrange "chance" meetings with the desired result: they fall in love with each other. After some turbulence, Alyssa (who poses as Amanda) ends up being adopted by the Butkises. She and Diane (while looking for Alyssa) find out the only reason they have adopted so many kids was for them to work in their salvage yard.

When Clarice secretly spies on Roger and Diane, she decides to move up the wedding from the next month to the next day. Roughly two hours before it, Amanda, who poses as Alyssa, proves to the family butler, Vincenzo (Philip Bosco), who she really is. He summons to have the real Alyssa picked up from the Butkises' salvage yard to stall the wedding. Once she and Diane show up, Roger stops it and tells Clarice that he fell in love with Diane. Furious, she slaps him and prepares to do the same to both Amanda and Alyssa but is stopped by both Vincenzo and Diane. She storms out, embarrassed. Alyssa embarrasses her even more by stepping on her gown, causing the skirt to rip off. Roger and Diane both find out in the end that it was Amanda and Alyssa that arranged all the meetings between both of them the entire time but it ends happily.
Characters

Awards and nominations
Reception
The film received an 8% (rotten) rating on review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes, with an average score of 4/10.
Kevin Thomas from Los Angeles Times called It Takes Two "a predictable but fun romp." Roger Ebert called it "harmless and fitfully amusing" with "numbingly predictable" plot and praiseworthy performances and rated it two out of four stars.
The website Parent Previews graded this movie an overall B as a family-friendly film with "only a couple of bad words and a bit of child intimidation from the bad guys," and Rod Gustafson from that website called it "predictable" with a "happy ending" that children can enjoy.
References
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